HEALTH CARE Emory's immediate role as a healthcare provider has been to treat medically needy refugees from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Some are being airlifted in through Dobbins AFB, and others are presenting at our clinics and hospitals after making their way to Atlanta independently. Emory School of Medicine physicians have received about a dozen patients to date at Emory Crawford Long Hospital and Emory University Hospital and have admitted thirteen more who were airlifted overnight to Grady Memorial Hospital. They have also delivered two babies for parents who drove to Atlanta from New Orleans, and have treated and written prescriptions for a hundred or more Katrina-related patients who made their way to Grady clinics through various means.
Emory Healthcare has established a Hurricane Relief telephone line for Emory University employees as well as Emory Healthcare employees at 404-778-7222. This line will be answered Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Here you can find resources and information that may be of assistance in locating family members or friends in the affected areas.
STUDENTS AND FACULTY FROM AFFECTED UNIVERSITIES Emory is working actively with the Association of American Universities and other national higher education organizations to identify and respond to the needs of individual students and institutions. We believe that most, if not all, of these students will find places to continue their study, if they wish.
Although most of our academic divisions are more than fully subscribed, we will enroll as transient students for the fall semester about 100 undergraduate students in Emory College, the School of Nursing, and the Business School. Enrolling these students in temporary status, rather than as transfers, protects the future viability of the institutions in which the students are currently enrolled.
In response to the deans of Tulane Law School and Loyola (New Orleans) Law School, Emory Law School will admit some 40 second- and third-year students from those two schools as transient students.
The Goizueta Business School MBA program has offered to enroll 30 to 40 second-year MBA students.
The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing also is accepting transient applications for graduate programs.
Faculty and staff from the Rollins School of Public Health are working closely with the Tulane School of Public Health to address the academic needs of approximately three dozen international students evacuated from New Orleans to Atlanta.
The Emory Libraries are offering to all faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students at institutions affected by Hurricane Katrina borrowing privileges, interlibrary loan privileges, and access to the Information Commons (databases) in Woodruff.
HOUSING FOR NONACADEMIC REFUGEES Campus Life has offered the gymnasium in the Student Activity and Academic Center on Clairmont Campus to the Red Cross for temporary housing, if needed, for 100 to 150 refugees. Unfortunately all dormitory and apartment space on campus is fully occupied owing to larger-than-anticipated classes in all divisions. A number of Emory community members have indicated willingness to take in students or others displaced by the hurricane for extended periods. If you know of someone from the Gulf areas in need of housing, or are willing to make room available, contact Gary Hauk, vice president and deputy to the President, at
[email protected].
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